Union Quotes

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world. View quote
James Madison
While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection. View quote
Amartya Sen
Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work. View quote
Susan B. Anthony
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. View quote
George Santayana
The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish. View quote
Samuel Gompers
My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut. View quote
Paddy Ashdown
The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States. View quote
Salmon P. Chase
With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined. View quote
Franklin Pierce
Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding sufficient for their stations. No duty is at the same time more difficult to fulfil. The knowledge of character possessed by a single individual is of necessity limited. To seek out the best through the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with the purest motives, is sometimes incorrect. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Our Federal Union it must be preserved. (Andrew Jackson)
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal. View quote
William James
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions. View quote
George Eliot
Sail on, O Ship of State Sail on, O Union, strong and great Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If we do not succeed with political union...then the historic decline of Europe which began with the First World War will resume. View quote
Jacques Delors
Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as to disintegration accelerated by economic and social strains. View quote
Zbigniew Brzezinski
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding. View quote
Henry James
You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget. View quote
Tom DeLay
Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality. View quote
Joseph Addison
Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly foresee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle. (George Washington)
Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union. View quote
Terry Eagleton
Union gives strength. View quote
Aesop
As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union. View quote
George Mason
The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace - not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our own failures. View quote
J. William Fulbright